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praissare always 'o be ceusured ; but a
seu.-iLle regard tor the esteem of these who
are both wise ad good Is uuobjeetiouablti.
iSueh esteem is encouraging and uiay be
iunocejjtly iaspiriDg V thegwd. .u let
it be re u; em le red that there U a world of
JiffereDcf- between beiDg notorious and be
iucr.vrw"af y ju-nhnJ. Ner and lyonicious
were notorious and yet they are named
with a. sliadder, and distingurshed by their
hideous vrtxehy alone. Who would be re
membered as the heartless l)antou or hw
aecoujjjiftf.s? Such uieu are made emiu
fiit by their violence to the rights aud
.happiness of others. 3Jay Heaven fbrfend
the calamity of such distinction .' ut Ls
not that 'jrui" which the world gives
its heroes in every department, almost al
ways composed in part of regard bestowed
on actions, which partake of this violence
o a greater or less degree? Is a lawyer
always on the right side? I tees he always
lefeud the innocent? Does he not run a
risk of being as often an advocate against
justice as j'tr justice? loes he uicoppress
the helpless and harmless oftentimes? Is
lie not then the admired and lauded hero
f inhjuity ? Uh, think! who it is that
praises him in such instances ; and think
of the atre of that praise: and think of
the motives which inspire it. Corrupt indeed
must that luan be who can glory in the
admiration which the despicable and
guilty give him for ha ing shielded them
from justice, by his having brought injury,
shame and calamity to the noble, truu and
unoffendiug. Yet such is apt,' very apt to
be a large part of the praise, which the
life i-f a lawyer secures. Of course I do
not intimate that members of the legal
profession seek such praise fur the sake of
it, or with a knowledge that their clients
are of that detestable character; but I
menu that in the nature of the esse, a law
yer eanu-Jt always be on the right side, if
he sought to be so, and that there is a
i.,ig side and a right one to every ipi )s-
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prais.-' n one to '1ut tne predicate
of -eijiii fe dislike and often bitterness on i
the other, y If one man is cleared, perhajjs
.mother is convicted. If one is made
happy, peri japs another is made miserable.
If o:ie man j('ins. perhaps another loses,
&c-. &.c. 1'r aise from such a life must be
embittered. -
Iu politi. very few ever receive much
more than gaseous, 4th of July sort of
praise wh has aljout as little ''heart" in
it as the f- ise that is given to the fire
works at a celebration. Some receive more,
but they often enjoy only the manifesta
tions of party prejudice aud a flimsy enthu-f-iasni,
which is fed on newspapers aud
cross-road ebulitions of senseless ranting.
The statesmen and the lofty politicians
are extremely few. They sometimes enjoy
Much love and praise, and most justly de-.-erve
it.
But after alL the praise that good peo
ple give t a faithful minister is the most
::iviable that man has ever received. Of
the two I would rather the fn'urt should
j. raise me than the hrtul. The highest
luouumcnt is built of grateful, loving
L-arts, and the grandest salvoes are those
that are whispered with almost Leaven 'y
eloquence in the chambers of pious souls.
This monument and these salvoes are the
true minister s. It is best to have that
praise, which Ls thought in the head, and
felt in the heart. Such praise is the faith
ful minister's. A. W. 31.
AtKOS-S THE CONTINENT. '0. It.
Agricultural L'ujMibiiifux of the. Pitrific
Stai- fitirramritto OfIAq"i!ntaurc
(.'iimjt-nwiwrf Mutfiotlht Stitytiitj
An limiting Fidd.
The time will come when California
will be as distinguished for her fruits and
agricultural products as for her mineral
wea.'th. Her mines seem inexhaustible
and dMi'ot;?ssitew discoveries are yet to be
made, but her capacity for cereal crops is
very partially developed. Lands which
yield from thirty to fifty bushels of wheat
per acre and from seventy to eighty
bushels of barley are too remunerative to
lie idle long. As a grazing country it has
declined anil will continue to decline. The
wild oats once so luxuriant have deterior
ated in height and quantity. The increase
of stock aud elo.-e mowing iu a few years
more will exterminate them. When the
now open valley shall be iuclosed and the
labor of the skilful husbandman shall be
applied to her soil, the Pacific State will
become the granary of ihe world. Her
exports of wheat will astonish those who
Lave thought of her only as the land of
gold. 3Iuch of the precious metals which
her people dig from the gulches aud the
mountains and which she sends to the East
by the million every month, will return to
her coined and stamped and ready for use.
Considering the length and breadth of
this great country, there are but few large
streams and yet well nigh all the most in
teresting points of the State may be reach
ed from San Francisco by water. Her
bays, rivers, and creeks and lakes are all
more or less navigable. The waters of
Feather Itiver ave so constantly plied with
boats that at the lowest stage navigation
continues, for the water and sand are so
mixed that they are always fluid enough
to allow a passage. On one of my trips up
the river, the boat was ploughing along
through a sand bed, with only a few inches
of water upon the top when I remarked to
the Captain, that he was certainly making
his last trip for the season. He replied,
by do means, we never cease to run on
this river if however, no boats were to
tor
over
with us till the rainy season comes on.
i But you set, sir, we keep moving and keep
j things stirred up, and so we can always
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' oacraiueiico is a neailt, mi cuv 01 u or
:w.uvu m uaouau cs. ii is uuui on a main
running back from the river and in loca
tion, size, wide streets, buildings and trees.
greatly resembles Augusta, Georgia. This
was the first point in the State 1 visited
after our arrival, and here at difiercut
times 1 spent several pleaant days, form
ed new aud renewed old acquaintances.
j To Capfc. Littleton and family, we are in
i dt'bted ivr mauy kiudne-ses on our first
j visit and indeed every succeeding one.
j We were stransrers and they took us iu
! and treatd us on all occasions with gene-
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tauee made this habitation more like home
than ever the heartfelt kindness of entire
strangers could do at other places. Used
to parsonages and preachers I found anoth
er home with Brother and Sister Evans.
All these and others gave more thanacup
of cold water, for Christ's sake, as well as
through courtesy, to a stranger the Lord
reward them an hundred fold here and for
ever. I attended seven Camp-meetings in
California and was deeply interested in
them, not only as a minister looking to
great moral results, but as a man who,
familiar with such gatherings in the east,
saw them here under new aspects and sur
roundings. ('amp-meetings here are very unlike
any thing of that - name elsewhere. A place
is selected near to water if possible, if no
running stream wells or pumps are brought
into requisition, and the next essential is
a grove of live oaks. These are necessary
that with their umbrageous tops, they may
help to form an arbor in the first place,
and then they are convenient to shade the
tents. The grounds are not laid off square
or oblong, or iudeed in any way. They
are innocent of all shape. One man pitches
under one tree, smother under another.
ami so on; the thickest shade is chosen
for the preaching place and the preachers'
tent is always jam up to the pulpit "the
stand." If among the interlacing branch
es, there are any breaks through which
the sunshine streams down, some brushes
or planks are put up, seats of various
kinds are provided, straw laid down and
all is ready. The tents are made by set
ting a few poles about eight feet long in
the ground and surrounding them with
cotton cloth. If the shade of the tree is
not douse enough, cloth or brush or plank
is put on the top. There are but few
fritters; seven is the most at any one place
I visited, three, two, one and none, and yet
the congregations were large at all ilffheyi
by day or night. The P. Elders, I believe
generally carry their own tents. Some of
the preachers too I noticed had tents of
their own and carried sticks, cloth and all
in their buggies. To feed the people two
arrangements prevail. In sonic cases, the
jieople in the circuit furnish the provision
aud hire a man or men to cook, and icrtj
Ijtjthj nits it ttr xii nu' tnbb . fri'c of fust to
thi- rttfi-rs, but at a heavy expense to the
providers. These meetings cost from 700
to 1.000 dollars. At another place a pub
lic tent is put up and a contract is made
with some man to furnish the table at so
much a head, say twenty-five cents a day,
and this I believe is the more common
method.
Another peculiarity of those meetings
is, that a time is set to begin without any
understanding as to the time of ending.
They last from four to fifteen days, accord
ing to circumstances. I attended one
when the P. K. and a visiting preacher
were the only tenters, and the preacher in
charge was the cook for the whole congre
gation. The irreligious people of the
neighborhood furnished the provisions.
3Iany of those things seemed to me very
awkward and inconvenient, but I soon be
came accustomed to them and really enjoy
ed them. They strikingly illustrate the
old saying, "where there is a will there is
a way." The preachers and people in C.
have a Kill to work for God and by all
means to save souls, and like Paul not
waiting for things "made ready to their
hands," they go at it careless of time or
expense or inconvcuience. The blessing
of God rests upon them like dew. I luve
seen the power of God upon the people in
awakcnings.eonversions.and in the bapt'sSn
of the church. On these occasions, theie
is a heartiness, a freedom from constraint,
a free gushing of religious emotion that is
refreshing. A false and foolish civilization
has not yet crushed out all the pious inde
pendence of the disciples, and the free en
joyment of spiritual influence without re
gard to "the fear of man" I trust will long
survive the "progress " of the times. It
would regenerate our old time preachers
to hear the singing about the altar at one
of these exti'mjiaram oits Camp-meetings iu
California. It is not a fossil, but a living
type of the better days what Beecher
calls "genuine old Jlethodist thunder. A
little more of the same sort in the cast,
would reform the false taste, the pernicious
fastidiousness pf those who are doing their
best to deform, the singing of our people.
As it conies in my way, this is as good a
time as any to say that to substitute the
praise of GmI by music is as wicked as it
is unmethodistic. Ihe difficulty with us.
is not want of science, but want of religion.
This is the secret which underlies all our
complaints. I have seen many a dumb
church grow vocal with song while re
vival fire was burning. No education in
notes, no artistic training of the voice will
supply the lack of heartfelt piety where
God is to be praised. A courageous, free,
lively religion will always find expression
in the simple melodies of the church, while
operatic music stiff, formal, soullesssing
ing will freeze and kill "the things that
remain, that are ready to die." Pardon
this digression. The religion cf our people
in California is of the right kind, active,
fearless, stirring. They can weep without
shame, sing and pray without constraint,
shout, defying the world and the devil.
The only capital defect is one incident to
their circumstances. In the midst of a
new country, the people excited by gold
and speculation, surrounded by novel
scenes and circumstances, society unset
tled, sometimes transient, in many places
perpetually changing, the church has not
been as systematically organized as it ought
to be. The most of the preachers too have
I pass iu two days, and thus give time to
! these sands to .settle, it would all be ove
been inexperienced, untrained themselves
and or course have relied upon revivals
and protracted efforts hero and there
the negleet of discipline, clasj-uieotings
and the indoctrination of their converts,
(A change for the better is begun and I
trust will sro on to perfection.) I mention
this here not because it is a fact merely iu
California, but because it is in my judg
ment a common error. We lose in one
"way very much of what we gain in the oth-
er. Un tins point 1 hope to enlarge before
very long, for I think it vital. .My main
reason for the statement above, is to show
the necessity of sending more experienced
men to the Pacific Conference. There is
not iu the bounds of Southern 3Iethodisii
a more inviting field than this. No place
where a man can do more permanent good
in a greater variety id ways. 3Ien. educa-
ted men, men of long and varied experi -
enee, who understand our church polity
and deeply imbued with the love of Christ
can do immense good by training the
preachers, preaching to the people, as a
counsellor in church enterprises, in Con
ference business, in moulding the institu
tion of an incipient empire.
Before 1 am done writing and talking
for California, the brethren will find out
that 1 am in earnest. I have, lost this year
by chill and fever, but my spirit in relation
to our interests there knows no chill, and
my desire to help our struggling church
on the Pacific coast keeps up to fever heat.
G. F. PIERCE.
Sunshine, Sjt. Vlth, 18(50. S. C.
Atfcortifr.
THE NEWS FROM CHINA.
31a. Editor : Our bar! or is full of
English and French men-of-war, and our
streets full of red coats ami blue coats, red
caps and green caps, and all the speckled,
grizzled, riug-strcaked and striped frater
nities belonging to the naval and military
orders ot -tiiigland and r ranee, fcome wear
medals on their breasts, some blue ribbons
and glittering stars ; and Mime one thing
and some another, not one-half of which i
pretend to understand. I suppose some
of them are official badges, others Crim
ean medals, etc. The i-'reueh officers are
the '.nost fantastic looking creatures I ever
saw. 31ost of them wear red pants, with
a dark stripe running down outside the
leg. small red caps covered with a great
deal of geld tinsel, and a profusion of
chains and ribbons twisted about the neck
and shoulders. The soldiers are gay t
nongh. and bad enough. The English
are much more genteel, and indeed, supe
rior in every respect to the French. We
see here hundreds of redcoats just precise
ly like those 3Iarion used to chase through
North Carolina.
The English are a patriotic people;
they love their country, and their good
Queen Vie. This is her birthday, and.
while I write, the house is shaking with
the roar of cannon, as they roll forththeir
patriotic thunders in honor of the great
est woman in the world The English are
always burning gunpowder, either iu salu
ting their friends or shooting their ene
mies. There is one gun-boat lying in the har
bor, with the stripes andstars floating over
her quarter-deck the Saginaw. This sol
itary little boat is the only representative
of our great Yankee nation's power and
glory iu these waters. The Chinese do
not fear us I do not know that they hate
us I doubt if they love us. We are re
garded by them as a good sort of people,
who love money more than foreign terri
tory or military glory. Ours is the great
flowery Bug country." That is all.
It is saiil there are now thirty thousand
English and French troops in the China
sea. No fighting has yet taken place.
Gossip says Lord Elgin is charged with a
message of peace, and that on his arrival
things will likely assume a less warlike as
pect. Of the object of his visit, we of
course know nothing. The Chinese expect
to fight, hope to gain another great victo
ry, but are not too confident to make ar
rangements for a different result. As to
any reliable information concerning the
war, except that there are troops here, and
that actual hostilities have not yet begun,
I can furnish none. The North China
Herald, which I hope now reaches you
regularly, will furnish all the information
known to the public here. Missionaries
and merchants are visiting the country in
terior for many miles without any moles
tation. Brother Lambuth is at this time
in the country with twoWeslcyan mission
aries. The Nanking rebels are taking posses
sion of all the chief cities in the Southern
provinces. Serious fears are now enter
tained for the present capital of this prov
ince. The Imperial forces seem unable to
check their progress in the least. The ap
proaching conflict between the foreign
troops and this government, has encour
aged the rebels to hope for the speedy
downfall of the Tartar dominion. Should
Pekin be taken by the English and French,
there is every reason to beliee that thu
days of the Tartars in China would be
iiumber,ed. It is difficult to say what we
ought to expect in the event of the rebels
taking the supreme control. Their Chris
tianity is, to say the least of it, exceeding
ly doubtful Soin-3 persons at a distance,
who know nothing about them, call them
saints, etc. I wish I could believe it.
China is dying of old age and moral cor
ruption. What will the new China be?
All well. Your brother in Christ.
W. G E. CUNNYNG II A3J.
Shanghai, China, 3Iay 24, 18G0.
JOHN "WESLEY'S REUNION.
When dying. John Wesley quoted his
brother Charles' hymn beginning,
'Let the worlil their virtue boast,"
dwelling with peculiar emphasis on the
lines,
"I tbe chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for mv'
This great man reached the conclusion
of the apostle Paul, to whom we have of
ten fancied he bore a strong resemblance,
both in thecharacter of his mental organ
ization and evangelical spirit. A sense of
total unworthiness and a perfect reliance
on the all-sufficiency of Christ, are the es
sential elements of a true religious faith.
L0VK THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
The warmth of the spring draws out the
sap of trees into a sprouting greenness, and
the peace of God refreshes the soul into a
flourishing obedience. Some who profess
that they enjoy an ocean of peace, express
not a drop of obedience. Suppose their
profession true, they defraud God j but it
being false, they delude themselves.
THAT SVNDAY .SCHOOL ri'RLISHIXG IT-NIK
Another important -reason why we need
to ; this fund is, that we nav be able to cheap
en llie prices of our Sunday School books,
j The complaint is constantly coming up t
j us, -'Why don't you sell your Sunday
! School ioiks as cheaply as those of the
American Sunday School Union?" Our
answer is this : We sell them at a mere j
trifle more than it costs to pay fir the j
type-setting, stereotyping paper, ink.prin- j;
I tinir and minima:, i nat " I ruoii sells us j
( own publications, often, for much less than
they cost. How c:;n it do this : .because i
it has just such a fun 1 as that for which i
; we now ask, to draw from, and so pay the
' diflerence between tl e actual cost of the
j book, and the 1 iwir price at which they
i sell it. Give us this fund, and then we
! shall be able to do the same. Th:t is, to
.i sell our books below their cost, and to give
j them away to those destitute schools, which
cannot afford to pay anything at all for
them.
How much more creditable it wonld be
to 3Iethodtsts, instead of buying other pub
lications, because they are a little cheaper,
to give liberally toward tne creation ol a
Sunday School Publishing Fund of our
own. which would enable us to supply our
own schools with our own books, on terms
as low as the lowest.
How much will you give towards it ?
Any sums may be forwarded to the treas
urer of our society, ltev. J. B. Mci'Vrriu,
I ..).. Nashville, Tenu., or to Charles Tay
lor, Columbia, S. C, Corresponding Sec
retary, S. S. Society of the 31. E. Church,
South.
I'EACE IN ZI0X.
Peace in the church is worth any sacri
fice except the sacrifice of truth and con
science. Personal preferences, opinions
about questions of mere expediency diver
sities of taste, natural antipathies of tem
perament for all these may coexist with
the deepest piety are to yield to the
claims of christian charity. The Holy
Ghost writes this on all truly regenerate
hearts. " Hereby we know that we have
passed from death unto life, because we
love the brethren" love them in spite of
all and every difference Of" natural disposi
tion and mental characteristics. In this
union of christian hearts there is Divine
strength and beauty. It is " sweet and
pleasant," says the Boyal Singer. Whoso
ever needlessly introduces the least ele
ment of discord into the church, is guilty
of the betrayal of II im who bought it with
his most precious blood. Be patient in
dealing with the erring. Love will con
quer iu the end, for it is God's weapon.
Complain less, and pray more. Entreat,
but. do not denounce. Weep, if you feel
like it, for the desolations of Jerusalem,
but lift no rod of vindictive punishment
again.-t your frail and fallibK: fellows.
While the world is striving and tossing a-
lxmiuf let them be Irene in yimi. I .'t
th-i J:-i!lowed atmosphere of the sum tuary
oe uuuisturneu ny me voice oi angry cen
sure or bitter reproach. Love one anoth
er, and let love be without dissimulation.
This is an unvarying condition of prosper
ity, anil the evidence of it. It is a mark
of spiritual growth and christian perfec
tion. Hear the apostle, "Be perfect, be
of good comfort, be of one mind, live in
peace; and the (Jod of love and peace
shall be with you." 2 Cor. xii L, 11.
1 rijic Jfeth ot 1 ist.
DESCENDANTS OF HUMANISTS IN 3 A TAX.
A curious letter from Rev. 3Ir. Brown,
in -Japan, is given in the New Y ork Evan
gelist. He reports that it is said by 3Ir.
Harris's interpreter, 3Ir. Heuski, and the
French Abbe, who is attached to the
French Legation as an interpreter, that
there are at Ycddo one hundred fam
ilies living in a quarter of the city by them
selves, and receiving each five rations of
rice per diem, from the Emperor's store
house, which families are the descendants
of one hundred Boman Catholics that re
canted at the persecution, two hundred
years or more ago, and who were required
to keep up a knowledge of lloinanisiu. so
that, from generation to generation, they
might act as detectives of llonianists iu
the country. The above-named gentle
men assert that the descendants of those
recan ters still receive their regular allow
ance from the Emperor. If so, it would
be exceedingly interesting to know how
far they have retained among them any
correct knowledge of the llomanist faith.
One would suppose that their notions would
become somewhat confused and incorrect
after transmission by mere tradition
through so many generations. The exis
tence of such a body of men shows that
the Japanese government does not forget
the past, and is very perseveringly . vigi
lant against the introduction of Roman
Catholicism into their country. Another
fact shows the same. In various parts of
the country, along the roads, there are wood
en tablets set up on which imperial orders
are recorded. One contains, among other
things, an offer of 8200 or $300 for the
detect ion of any "Catholic, Romanist, or
Brethren" among the people. These of
fers are the same that were made two cen
turies ago, and as often as they become de
faced by exposure to the .weather, they
arc retouched with India-ink, to render
them again legible. The Methodist.
A BALL THAT HITS.
The following condemnation of fashiona
ble preaching is hard, but it is a true shot
in some quarters. It is from "The Hoini
iist," a work just published:
" Well, dearly beloved brethren, I have
come into your pulpit to-day because I
have agreed to come. It is in the terms of
an old contract between us; a contract
that was formed, to be sure, when I was
disposed to take a somewhat more fanatical
view of the matter than I do at present.
But I respect the bargain ; worship is a
social decency, and a graceful adjunct to
civilization. Established usage looks in
this direction, and religious institutions
are a politic kind of constabulary. I am
here in my place as the bell rings, and I
take occasion to say that it is proper you
should be saved. The Bible is pronounced
authentic by competent antiquarians, and
has uncommon literary merits. The laws
of good breeding have settled it that virtue
is a desirable accomplishment, besides be- !
ing a safe protection against unpleasant!
penalties invented by magistrates; aud I
christian faith I will recommend as a pru- j
dent specific against disagreeable conse-i
quences generally reported to follow
wicked courses. Amen." i
A I'll TI RE OF WESLEY'S TIMES.
Thackeray's Lecture on the Second
George, published in Harper, makes one
feel that a reformation was needed :
As I peep into George H.'s St. James'
I see crowds of cassocks rustling up the
backstairs of the ladies of the court;
stealthy clergy slipping purses into their
; Japs; trial godless old king yawning uu
: der his canopy in his chapel royal, as the
j chaplain before him is discoursing. Pis-
coursing what '! about righteousness and
judgment? While the chaplain is preach
ing, the king is chattering in German al
most as loud as the preacher; so loud, that,
the clergyman it may be one Dr. Young,
he who w rote "Night Thoughts," and dis
coursed on the splendors of the stars, the
gl tries of heaven, tsnd utter vanities of this
"u;Vd actually burst out . crying in his
pulpit, because the defender of the .faith,
and dispenser of bishoprics, would not lis
ten to him. No wonder that the clergy
were corrupt and indifferent amidst this
indifference and corruption. No wonder
that skeptics multiplied, and morals degen
erated, so far as they depended on the in
fluence of such a king. No wonder that
Whitfield cried out in the wilderness
that Wesley quitted the insulted temple to
pray on the hill-side. I look with rever
ence on those men at that time. Which
is the subliuier spectacle the good John
Wesley, surrounded by his congregation
of miners at the pit's mouth, or the queen's
chaplains mumbling through their morn-
ing office in their ante-room, under the
picture of.Uje great Venus, with the dm
opened hithe adjoining chamber, whei
the (iiieeii is dressing, talking scandal i
tor
:ere
the (iiieeii is dressing, talking scandal to
Lord'IJervy, or uttering sneers at Lady
imiiIoJk, who is kneel'.njj
at her mistress's side ?
with the basil.
1
-ay i am searct
as I look round at this society, at this
king, at these courtiers, at t hese politicians,
:U those bishops, at this flaunting vice and
lcvity'JtWhcrcabouts in this court is the
honest mail ? Where is the pure persen
one may like ? The air stifles one with
its sickly perfumes. There are some old
worid follies, and some absurd ceremonial
about our court of the present day, which
i laugh at ; but. as an Englishman, con
trasting it with the past, shall I not ac
knowledge the change of to-day? As the
mistress of St. J allies passes me now, 1 sa
lute the sovereign, wise, moderate, exem
plary of life; the good mother; the good
wife; the accomplished lady ; thecKiight
oncd friend of art; the tender sympathizer
in her people's glories and sorrows.
I'KKr'ECTIOS.
T.Y JOHN WESLEY.
What is the perfection of which man i
capable, while he dwells in a corruptibi
It is the complying with thai ki
( :'i!iiii:ind. -31 y sou. give me thy heart."
It is the
his heart
ovmg tltc Lord lnst.od with ail
ina wiiu ;tii ins soul, ami Willi
i -.1 '.ii i i -i
i:)l hn mind."
tiaii verfe tioi
This is
it is a!)
lie sum of Chris-
lsed in that
.:' Viord ivb. 1 he firs! branch id' ic
the love of God : and, as lie that loves God
joi es liis brother also, it. is inseperably con
nected with the secjud. "lnou shaft love
thy lieighuoras tnyseit. x liou snalt -Jove
every man as thy ow n soul, as Christ lin ed
Us. "On these twoeomtuaiidmentshang all
the law and the prophets;' the.-e contain
the whole of Christian perfection.
Another view of this is given us in those
words of the great apostle, "Let this mind
be in 3 011 which was also in Christ Jesus."
,'"or although this immediately and direct
fy refers to the humility of our Lord, yet
it may be taken in a far more exenstive
sense so as to include the whole disposi
tion of his mind, all his affections, all his
tempers, both towards God and man.
Now, it is certain that, as there was no evil
affection in Him, so 110 good affection or
temper was wanting. So that "whatsoev
er things are holy, whatsoever things are
lovelv, are all included in the mind that
was in Christ Jesus."
St. Paul, when writing to the Galatians,
places perfection in yet another view. It
is the one undivided fruit of the Spirit,
which he describes thus: "The fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, fidelity," (so the
word ,-hould be translated here.) "meek
ness, temperance." What a glorious con
stellation of graces, is here! Now, sup
pose all these things to be knit together
in one. to be united together iu the soul
of a believer, this is Christian perfection.
Again: He writes to the Christians at
Ephesus, of "putting on the new man,
which is created after God in righteous
ness and true holiness ;" and to the Col
lossians, of "the new man renewed after
the image of him that created him," plain
ly referring to the words in Gen. i. 27, "So
(iod created man in hisown image." Now
the moral image of God consists (as the
apostle observes) "in righteousne ;s aud
true holiness." By sin this is totally des
troyed. And we never can recover it till
we are "created anew in Christ Jesus."
And this is perfection.
Sc. Peter expresses it in a still different
manner, though to tiie same effect: "As
he that hath calied you is holy, so be ye
holy, in ail manner of conversation." 1
Peter L 15. According to this apostle,
then, pad'ectiou is another name for uni
versal liSli'ness; inward and outward right
eousness ; holiness of life, arising from ho
liness of heart.
I f any expression can be stronger than
these, they are those of St. Paul to the
Thessaloniarib, ljustle, v. o"J : "The God
of pence himseli-san'ctify you wholly; and
may the wr.ole of you, the spirit, the soul,
and the body, (this is the literal transla
tion,) be preserved blameless unto the com.
ing of our Lord Jesus Christ."
We cannot show this sanctification in a
more excellent way than by eomplyingwith
that exhortation of the apostle, "I beseech
you, brethren by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies, (yourselves, your
souls and bodies ; a part put for the w hole,
by a common figure of speech.) a living
sacrifice unto God," to whom ye were con
secrated many years ago in baptism.
When what was then devoted is actually
presented to God, then is the man of God
perfect.
To the same effect, St. Peter says, 1 Ep.
ii. 6 : "Ye are a holy priesthood, to offer
up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God.
through Jesus Christ." But what sacvi-
ces shall we offer now, seeing the Jewish
dispensation is at an end ? If you have
truly presented yourselves to God, you of-
fer up to him continually all your thoughts
and words, and actions, through the Son
of his love, as a sacrifice of praise and
thanksgiving.
Thus you experience that he whose name
is called Jesus does not bear that name in
vain; that he does, in fact, "save his peo
ple from their sins. "the root as well as the
branches. And this salvation from sin.
J from all sin, is another description of per
I fectioiiy though indeed it expresses only
j the least, the lowest branch ot it; only the
negative part ol the great salvation.
ikei.a.n 11 - FumTuTTii i. revival.
A friend wrote on the 27th ult., from
the neighborhood of Belfast, a;i follows :
"Here I am, in the very place to which
my longing thoughts have been tending
ever since 1 have read the accounts of the
revival.
'Ihe day I arrived, my cousin inquired
in one of the neighboring cottages, w here
the prayer meeting would be held. As I
could not, 011 account of my health, walk
any dis;!;iee, I concluded to husband my
stierigth ior one on .valbatli evening held
by the converts. In this I was foiled.
But alter the meeting at that time, one
of the servants who had been there came
in, and said, "they are coming." On walk
ing to the gate, the most beautiful music
came wafting up the road from about 20
persons, the very youngest, perhaps a child
of ten years. '1 hey ail work in the flax
mills.
Just before reaching aunt's gate they
commenced singing the twenty-third psalm
in meter. That completely overwhelmed
me. I thought, "Hear people I you w
need the faith expressed in the first verse
of that psalm before the winter closes," as
the hay was staiutingout, almost destroyed
by the rains, and not any of the grain gath
ered 111. Oil ! what a scene for angels to
look on. Hearts that a few short months
ago were all moral defilement now singin
the praises of God now the temples of the
Holy Ghost, lhese are not ashamed to
tell what the Lord litis done for them.
Four of that little company had spoken or
prayed at the meeting.
It is customary for them to sing psalms
011 returning to their homes. Jlns pas
sage came to my mind forcibly, " ith
singing shall they return to Zioii." It was
a beautilijT.'iwoonlight night. The bay iu
'.he distanpb and the mountains round us,
and this group of goodly ones, singing pi iri
ses to the God of all, with the heart, ami
with the understanding, all moved me.
Their music was in perfect harmony and
time.
Before this revival, aunt was exceed
ingly annoyed with the unseemly conduct
of the voting people passing her gate.
It is very common for the young con
verts to request permission to speak before
the congregation, ami also to pray ; ain't
though illiterate, their language is beauti
ful and appropriate.
Another thing about Belfast is very stri
king. Texts of scripture, calculated to a
louse and awaken, are placarded, in large
type, in the coiners of streets and road
sides, such as "Jesus Christ came into the
woi Id to save sinners," "Jesus Christ came
te s'v'." a ml to save that which wns lo.it."
While there is still much to be done fir
multitudes who are unsaved in this land
of superstition, this is the most direct and
blessed outpouring of the Holy Spirit
vouchsafed to our earth, I verily believe,
since the day of I'enticost.
The Lord God Aimight- has. by right
eousness, exalted Ireland among the na
tions of the earth, and brought her back
again to the original pure gospel. Though
her sister isle may, by her bad legislation,
shut up the treasures of her bosom and
hamper her commerce, yet the Lord is her
deliverer from the bondage of sin, and the
galling yoke of popery."
WE ARE ALL DRUTHERS. '
Throughout this great nation we are all
brothers. We are mutually dependent on
each other. The lessons of Providence
can and should be read. In the North,
the heavens have smiled, the seasons have
rolled cheerily round, and a grand harvest
is gathered. In the South,, the heavens
have been brass, the dry seasons have gra
ted harshly on their hinges, and our poor
barns are empty. But our rivers and rail
roads in a few hours can bring down the
surplus at the North, and banish famine
from our homes. Next year it may be re
versed, and then we shall furnish the
North.
Who knows but God may design by this
providence to teach our great people their
mutual dependence. We are the same
people; our origin, our mothertongue, our
ineient compact of tne old thirteen States,
our common revolutionary oiooa, our
sacred Constitution, our vast territory, our
geographical unity, our noble rivers, pierc
ing through the country Ironi North to
South, indivisible, all proclaim that it is
our dearest interest to be and remain one
people. Our hopes aud those of our chil-
iren are bound up together 111 the destiny
of this country. The future of Christian
ity is umteu with, and can never be di
vorced from our national destiny. When
there are so many sacred reasons for cor
dial fraternity, it is the part of madness
to shut our eyes against the comfort and
happiness ot each other. Let us learn of
God's logons, love our Constitution and
our whole eon 11 try, and love one another.
JStutiier of J'aei-.
A SritK Paymaster. That terrible
. f .- . Ti'il:
saying oi .11n1e or .instria 10 juoneneu
holds true for mercy as well as for judg
ment : 31 y Lord Cardinal, God does not
pay at the end of every week, but at the
last he pays." (iod may put his faithful
ones upon alongand faithful apprentice
ship, during which they it arn much aud
receive litiie food oiiiy, and "that 111 a
measure" often the L:ea! and water of
ai.'lictlon. J et at the last hi: l'!s. pays
them into their hearts, pays them into
their hands also. We may remember long
seasons 01" faint yet honest endeavor; the
prayers of a : oul yet without strength ; the
sacrifices of an imperfectly subdued will.
bound even with cords to the altar; we
may remember such times or we may for
get them, but their results are with us.
Some of the good seed sown iu tears is
now shedding a heavenly fragrance c with
in our lives, and some of it will blossom,
perhaps bear fruit over our graves. Ihe
1 atieitee of Hope,.
The London Mixistky. " The most
popular and able preachers" in London,
according to a recent statement of Kirwan
are not iu the Establishment. With all
its gorgeous churches and vast endowment,
it has but few men to be compared
with Cumming. and Hamilton, and Spur
geon, and 3iartin, aud Brock, and
Punshon.
TATTI.I Vi.
The iVisti ni M, ih. i'rotesftnit. Spring
field, ( hio. gives. among other good things,
the fi l'owing receipt for making tattlers:
Take a handful of the vine called Run
about, the same quantity id' the root called
Nimble tongue, a sprig of the root called
Back-bite, at chher before or after dog
days; a spoonfui of don't-yoil-tell-it, six
di.'ichr.is of 31alice. a few drops of Envy,
which can be purchased in any quantity
at the shop of 31iss Tabitha Tea-table. .
Stir them well together, and simmer them
for half an hour over the fire of discon
tent, kindled with a little jealousy; then
strain it through the ntg of 31 i-eonstruc-tion.
hang it upon a skein of Street Yarn,
shake it for a few days, and it is fit for
use. Let a few drops be taken before
walking out. and the subject will be ena
bled t.v. ,!1 tru l.r.t.i .r tv, i! :.wr.iu.
ally.
A .STRONG EXPRESSION.
-r T r t 1 1.. .
ji rs. ii. jj. itayiey, 111 a letter to the
Richmond Chiistion Adroettfr, in a des
cription of the celebrated Baptist preach
cr, 31 r. Spurgeon, says :
".lter praying an energetic and ear
nest prayer, having read the fourth chap
ter of Judges, upon which he madea num
ber of comments, some of them very good,
lie proceeded to give out another hymn,
and before reading the second verse, said,
"If there are any strict Baptists here, 1
hope they will enjoy this verse, for I as
sure them 1 do." He then read :
'The saints tin cnrlh and all the ili'.-nl.
But one ciitiimunimi make,"
and continued, "all the people on earlh,
nor the devils iu hell, could not make me
believe iu restricted communion."
WAITING.
At the lieiiiilifnl ;raN! n('l!:e temjilu
I till many a vvar :il",
A Initio man waited, willt i'ent eye.
Wateliiiig lie cl.!. and Hint-,
Or ;!ic rea.-eh s.- tide nf w. r.-'.iiu.
As llu-v ia.'.-i'i !".-, one l.y one.
i t 'i i tne '-r. v 1.1 carlv in..ii;ii,:
l'o
To the .-et ..f llie poldell
The volume of inspiration
TjIIs of t'-ie liuiie made tviiote;
How the hiiilliij; hi-. I m of heaven
W;s jioured on his waiting soul.
A' t!:e Ijeaurifiit gatti of thy mercy
.My .-'pint, O Father waits :
It looks t..r a v'leain of glory,
A l:o(,e from the golden gates.
And ti e hymn.- of its adoration.
liise mi igl. ii nil!, tear.-and (uiin,
As inorn to uighl, and uiglit morn
ll watehes and vai:s iu vain.
iJ, father,
,'!'.: opto the
To pour the jrh
omo
,'-! '
:1111s.
holj ung
en ;-,t-,
of -P ry
1
On si:rils thai hope and wait.
To whisper of thee and heaven,
And teach u.s to see arighi ;
On imrsouis to pour a elii-i.-m
On our eyes a heavenly light.
SEVEN PERSONS 1IIRN Ii) AT TIIE STAKE.
A correspondent of the Sacramento
ttioit. reiates the particulars, as tiir as
known, of one of the most revoking acts of
savagery 111 the history ol Indian bar
barities. About the iid or 4tii of 3Iay
last, Norman 11. Caufield, of Butte county,
California, who had then recently arrived
iu the Territory, with a party, composed
iu all of seven persons, left Stone's Cross
ing of the Truckee at Big 3Ieadows, with
the intention of visiting Winneiuucca at
his camp at Pyramid L.iKc,and endeavoring
to obtain his peaceful permission to pros
pect for silver in the vicinity of the Lake.
To disarm the Indians of any thought of
hostility on their part, and inspire as far
as possible, a feeling of confidence and
friendliness, they went without weapons of
any kind, with the single exception of a
revolver, which Caufield was persuaded to
carry. Three or four days after this,
occurred the massacre at Williams' ranch.
A short time afterwards the bodies of
seven men wdio had been slain were
discovered lying togethel between the
Truckee and Red Bluffs, and though too
far decomposed and mutilated to be. re
cognizable, were supposed to be those of
tne Canheld party, and as such their
names were published at the time; the
remains were not then bnriedj and a sub
sequent examination proved the error of
the supposed identification. Among the
volunteers iu the late Indian expedition
under Col. Hays' were two very intimate
friends of 3Ir. Caufield, who used every
possible effort to ascertain the fate of his
party; but though the form and features
of all the discovered dead were carefully
scrutinized, none were recognized as bear
ing any resciiiblence to hi 111 or his known
companions. A few days after the volun
teers were withdrawn from Pyramid Luke,
the regulars being then stationed there,
some of the Iatier discovered among the
cotton woods, below where the Indian
village had stood, and near the place
where the Truckee empties into the Lake,
tied to as many trees, the bodies, or charred
remains of seven men, who had been burn
ed to death. Two or three had been
fastened to the trees with log-chains, and
the flesh had been entirely burned from
them; the others had been tied with raw
hides; and the upper portions of the bodies
bore traces of identification, particularly
that of Caufield, who was a robust and
powerful man, remarkable in form and
feature; his lower limbs and the lower
part of his frame had been consumed,
with the evident design to protract suscep
tibility tu pain, till the bones were char
red; but the upper part of the chest, the
anus ami shoulders and the head were en
tire; even the trim military whiskers
worn by the victim were unxinged. Fur
ther description and detail have also been
furnished, but the revolting hitle.tusness
of the picture forbids elaboration. Suf
fice it that the evidence leaves to the
friends of 3Ir ('anlield and his companions
no possibility of d .iiht as1 to his identity,
and the hori ible process of his and their
death. The remains of the victims of this ter
rible ot'lo tin fc were all carefully interred
in one grave, beneath a large cottonwimd
tree near the spot on which they died, by
the soldiers under Captain Steward. Can
field was from Cambridge, Washington
county, New York, where his family re
sided iu 1819, when ho came to California.
AN nil'lIOMl'f; A( KAVKNT.
During the visit at Ireland's hoiie, ati
humble Wesleyan itinerant, mi his way to
Con. wall, stopped at Ilristol to greet the
An tiiiiaii hampion. As he arrived at lint
mansion, with two fel!ov-itincr.'iul, Flet
cher was returning from 11 horc-b.ik
ride, which had been enjoined by bin
physicians. I le n cogiiii'i'tl them as Meth
odist preachers, and dismounting, has
tened towards them with extended in ins.
Thcv were
si ruck 'y his "upotolie
appearance. He riPi ited most ol the
sixteenth chapter of John, on the j riiu!.i!
of the Jfo'y Ghost. "My mul." cay one
of the visitors. " wa dissolved in'n tend
erness, and became as melting wax before
the firel " They rev ret ted th effect of his
cotitrovcsi il l.drttrs liiMtu his hcahh. "If
lie fell a victim," ho rcplic" it was in a
After a little further con versa t ion ,,up-
4 on the universal love of God in CLrUt
Jesus." the visitors were about to take .
their leave, when Ireland sent his foot
man into the yard with a buttle of wine,
and slices of bread upon a waiter; thcv nil
uncovered their heads while Fletcher
implored a blessing upon the refresh nn nt,
which he had no sooner done, than In;
handed the bread to each, ami then lift
ing his eyes to heaven pronounced (he
words! "The body of our Lord ,Jesim
Christ, which was ghcii for tin o, ffV-erve
thy body and soul unto everlasting life."
Afterwards, presenting them the wine,
he said in like manner: "The Mood ofon.
Lord Jesus Christ," cct. -'Such a ki
crainent'" hays the narractor," I never bad
before. A sense of the Divine pn .net
rested upon us all, and we were inched
into fli a id.- of tears. We then Mounted
our horses and rode away, that hour more
than repaid me fur my h.,,.
journey
from Edii burgh lo Cornwall."
Such w is Fletcher, coming out, of ihe
tril'e of Ihe six gears' Calv ini.-tic contro
versy, ."silt ll he Ii.nf been sini e he clilcr.
ed it, and such he continued to be until
io cut. red heaven. Ihiiti Clu iim, J.-
11 h ule.
Till) LAsT Hoi RS OK L.U'.U I.TTL'.
No life had ever been more pas-ionati !y
pnhtical tlnni his: mi man had ever i.hic. .1
his
ideas and political scniimcntH more
constantly :d
Hive all 'it her iirt'iHw-si'-siiiiiK i.r
interests. But p.hlics were utterly 1111-
connecied with his death. Ill fur 'three
weeks, he approached his l ist hniir. ilis
clnlurcu and lion t hold surroundi d bi
bed ; he ceased tosj ctd., am! it wasduiib.' li.l
whether he could see. His son Goot-n
observed th.it w ii !i
uncertain gc fur
be
11.-
sought for something in his bo-oni.
came to h:s lathers a.-.-i.-tam-e. and l.i.-c 1
in his hand a mclalliuii which be always
wow su-ponded round his K-. k. M. dc
La I'ayelle raised it to his ij,s; ;l iu',u'.:i ,u-
and a lock oi hairof de Madame tie i,a l a ;,
ctie, whose lo-s I.e had mourned r (, -seven
years, '-'bus, already s,- aral.-d
from tne- etiiiie world, alone
thought and image of the devoid ( ,i.
paiiiou of his li!e, he died. In an:oi-.iug
Ids !ini-lal, it was a rec.igtiiz.--l L'cl in the
family that 31. do l.a Fayette had alway-i
wished t-i be butied ill the slii.ill eeinel, 1 y
adjoining the coinent of Pie;, in, by the
side of his wile, in the lui-Ist of 1 ietivrf
of the revolution, the o,.,.;l,.r real
ists ami M-istocrats, who.-e aiiecsluis had
founded that pious establishment. 'Ihe
desire of the veteran uf 17!l was scrupu
lously respected and complied with. An
immense crowd soldiers, national guard-,
and popu'ace accompanied the funeral
proccssi.iii along the boulevards and slr-cts
of l'ai;s Arrived at the gate of ti e
convent of I'icpus, the crowd halted; the
iuteri-n-enclosure could, only hold three
hundred persons'. The f.ftnily, the near
est relatives, and the principal aulliorilics
entered, passing through the convent iu
silence; then across the garden, and filial
ly entered the cemetery. There no polit
ical manifestation took place; no ration
was pronounced ; religion and the itttiniale
reminiscences of the soul alone were pres
ent j public politics assumed no place near
the death-bed or the grave of the man
w hose life they had occupied and ruled.
fJtti:.ot Memoir.
1NKI.IENCE.
Far iu the distant years some deed (" lienttly,
lluth struck the key nolo f a hold retrain,
And many i nohlu a.-l and liigh-souled duty
Led .111 I he lofty strain.
Far in tlm distant yciiM
itoinu ihonghl rane.
jrlcaiioug.
Along ihe hisi'ry of this world's gr. 'it til'-.
And quivering down Iroiu hen ft lu heart ila Learn
ing With fc'lory ;Jtill is l ilVt.
Oh, Idest Ihe power such ile. d.i of licuw nly meel-im-ss
T't I'our itdown lh- tract of coming -lays,
And Idest the thoughts, lhal fill in living iiwctl
ness t'pou life's common ways.
And glad the gatlif-rinsr, when our linn- is fridc-l.
Of all Ihe iiiHneiiri, that one hie huih cnsl ;
Tilt- souls lle.l through such friit--l words t-vo
t. nd. I
I nwai'l to heaven at la-t.
A WKsTMt.N PIONEER.
A correspondent of the Watchman and
Reflector, writing from Iowa, gives the
following description ofa pioneer preacher
" On a recent trip through the interior
I met a .Methodist minister who was occ
nping two mission stations in Chickasaw
count', and performing the laltors of two
clergymen. He was preaching on an
average four sermons a week, ami traveling
nearly three hundred miles per month.
He is a man of robust constitution, ami
perforins his arduous laltors seemingly
without injury to his health. lie was ti
pioneer minster in the valleys of the Sell
rock ami Cedar rivers six or seven years
ago, and married the first couple that
were united iu Cerro Gordo c ity. I In
was once crossing a broad, unset led pr
airie iu Worth county, with three other
)iersons, iu as many carriages, and to
break up the nitinoioiiy of the ride, ami to
servo God most acceptably, they held a
prayer-meeting without halting their horses
Two persons occupied the middle carriage,
and e.i' h of them led iti the devotions.
A nut her carriage then t'Sik the middle
position, '.ind the persons occupying it
praayed. Then the third aud fourth suc
cessively took tiirt position, each person
in turn engaging in prayer. It is not
very uncommon thing for conference meet
ings to be held while journeying through
prairie land, the time being taken up in
iuging and exhortations while the carri
ages are in motion; but I never heard of a
r'croud prayer-meeting being held under
such circumstances."
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